Motivational Stories Quotes

If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively ~ Sid Mittra

Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you ~ Sid Mittra

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness. ~ Tim O'Brien

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. ~ Steven Levitt

Celebrate Life. Unless you celebrate each day of Life, you are not truly Living. Let each day be a Festival of Joy. - RVM ~ R.v.m.

Whatever you wish for, you can have with hopeful patient wait. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told. ~ John Legend

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories. ~ Paul David Tripp

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. ~ Nadia Comaneci

Attend your children's athletic events. There's nothing better than watching your child succeed while absolutely loving the opportunity to play in front of you. ~ Robert Cheeke

If the characters are not wicked, the book is. We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the giant. Stories with fiery serpents and leviathans and sermons in whirlwinds. Stories in which murderers are blinded on donkeys and become heroes. Stories with dens of lions and fiery furnaces and lone prophets laughing at kings and priests and demons. Stories with heads on platters. Stories with courage and crosses and redemption. Stories with resurrections. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one! ~ Mohith Agadi

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation. ~ Jonathan Haidt

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. ~ Haruki Murakami

You can't tell such stories about romantic infatuation from the point of view of the object of the infatuation without losing the flavor of the emotion. They would just become 'who is that creep hanging around outside the balcony' stories. ~ Margaret Atwood

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories. ~ Carla H. Krueger

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. ~ Zig Ziglar

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have. ~ Haile Gerima

Patience is something I can't wait to have! ~ Todd Stocker

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever. ~ Zoe Saldana

For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich, detailed accounts of gods and monsters, of love and curses. She can weave a tale from Spanish moss and moonlight that will make a young girl's heart resonate with yearning or weep with anguish. Her coastal Georgia roots add a dark sweetness to all her narratives, one that stains her stories with sorrow like a drop of molasses dissolving in warm butter. ~ Sara Stark

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us - in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment. ~ Pawan Mishra

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself. ~ Alice Hoffman

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it's present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren't getting much closer. But when you're feeling love, you're acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. ~ O. Henry

Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man. ~ Dewi Morgan

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell. ~ Colum McCann

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. ~ Joan Walsh Anglund

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception.
"Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it? ~ Diana Gabaldon

The major fortunes in America have been made in land. ~ John D. Rockefeller

One of my favourite ways to demonstrate Social Authority is with case studies that tell stories about a specific customer. ~ David Jenyns

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Go out and find some real people. Listen to their stories. Don't ask for the main point. Let the story run its course. Like flowing water, it will find its own way, at its own pace. And if you've got patience, you'll learn more than you might imagine. - T ~ Bernadette Jiwa

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle. ~ J.H. Wyman

I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect. ~ Julius Erving

Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him. ~ Sam Weller

Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible. ~ Swami Vivekananda

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ~ Louis Mann

Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him. ~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

Stories were heirlooms in these parts. ~ Robert Kurson

These stories are all true, but only somewhere else. ~ Kristopher Jansma

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ~ Criss Jami

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it. ~ Ashwin Sanghi

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. ~ Roma Downey

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise ... Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!
Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories ~ Richard Bach